World of Warcraft

[extremesoda]

I am sure this question has been asked more than a few times, so I hope you don't mind helping me out.

I have almost completely left Windows behind only that I can't play WoW as well on Linux as I can on Win7 that I even use it at all.

I have been trying for a while to make World of Warcraft run well on Linux. I have been using various Ubunut based distros.

I am currently using Linux Mint 15(Cinnamon).

I have looked at the WoW entry on the AppDB and see that users have been getting some really high FPS when playing.

I have followed some of the "How To" sites and I still get it to be a bit erratic. The FPS would be fine as long as I am standing still or not in combat but then would fluctuate wildly. They also advise using the OpenGL method but that seems to reduce the overall graphics capabilities when compared to DirectX.

I was hoping someone would be able to tell me what worked for them so I can try to get it to work on my setup.

I am currently running:

Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon (64-bit)
Wine 1.6 rc2
nvidia-310.44-ubuntu2 Driver
Warcraft Installation copied from Windows Directory
Curse Client

System:

CPU - Q6600 Core2Quad 2.40Ghz
RAM - 4GB DDR2
GPU - Nvidia GeForce GT 630

Help me leave Windows behind and I will be very grateful.

[hirschhornsalz]

Note that the people getting "really high" framerates are usually using gamer gfx cards.

If I patch wine with the patch mentioned in Bug 11674 - Dual-core unsupported in WoW and SC2 (use glBufferSubDataARB) and run wine with

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__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 WINEDEBUG=-all wine wow-64 -opengl

I am able to squeeze out almost constantly 60+ fps, besides 25 man raids, were 30 fps are common.

If I enable d3d9, the framerate stays mostly about 60 fps outdoors, but on occasion drops to 40. In 25 man it sometime drops to 20 or below, which is becoming unplayable.

This is on a GTX 570 with an Core i7 2600 clocked to 4.6 GHz.

Your 630 is about 5 to 10 times slower, so don't expect to much - using opengl you will get the same fps as in windows, but without advacend effects.

[Skotches]

So I have good and bad news. I have very similar stats on my computer, quad core, 2.83ghz, 4gigs ram, nvidia card GT640, etc etc. My FPS is misleading and I'm not sure why. Back in the days of vanilla I'd rarely ever get over 10 and it ran fine, so now that I'm pushing 60 with ultra settings it seems pretty awesome.

Anyway, I run sabayon linux which is a "every man's" gentoo version I guess. I know little about linux but these days you can kind of learn by jumping in. Been running it for the last few months but only in the last week or so did I bring WoW back up. Before I switched over, I made sure wow ran with the live USB boot and it worked great. The difference between it and windows 7 seemed small (but then again I had a different video card when I was comparing).

However, after running all the updates on Sabayon (which kind of annoyingly pesters you to do until you do it, and then pats you on the back many times after having done it) WoW won't run. It may be the new version of wine (which comes preinstalled on sabayon) and that's what I'm testing now, or at least, trying to. Until I can get it running I have to boot up specially with the USB and run it like that, which works great for WoW, just kind of crappy for everything else (well, flash player/browsing).

Good luck!